During the Ordovician Period, a time of significant changes for Earth’s life-forms, plate tectonics and climate, the planet experienced a peak in meteorite strikes. Nearly two dozen impact ...

This event, dating back 466 million years, coincides with the Ordovician impact spike, a time of unusually intense meteorite ...

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

Like Saturn, Earth may have also had its ring system circling the planet 466 million years ago. These rings seem to have ...

And now, scientists hypothesize that Earth may have sported its own ring some 466 million years ago. During the Ordovician ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...